President's Message
Volunteerism is vital to our society. Without the hours of commitment from our members we wouldn’t exist. One of the annual requirements we must fulfill as a member of the Ontario Horticultural Association (OHA) is reporting a tally of those hours for our society. For 2022, we reported a total of 1690 hours. This is a significant decrease from 2298 hours in 2021, but still an impressive amount of time and effort that have gone into keeping our society running and beautifying our communities. Thanks to all who contributed to that total.
As I said in December’s President’s Message, with fewer board members, we will need to work smarter and look for efficiencies. To that end, we are introducing a new method of reporting and collating those volunteer hours. Every month in the newsletter you will see a volunteer hours button that will lead to a form for you to record your hours. The categories, as prescribed by the OHA, all remain the same. It is only the method of collecting those hours that is changing. I am sure that we have all been dealing with more change than we are happy with, but automating this task, and dealing with it on a monthly basis will allow us to focus on something more important – celebrating and recognizing our volunteer commitments. Please look for more details in the newsletter under Volunteer Hours 2023 and enter your volunteer hours for a chance to win January’s prize.
David Kelly
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